Waters Rising

What better way to spend a rainy day than in the decaying warmth of an abandoned nursing home. Including the flooded basement there are 3 floors with a 4th addition on the street-facing side.

A live Miles Davis cassette tape paperweights a 'Get Well' card. The message in pencil is smeared while the real lead lies in the chipping walls. Floral wallpaper over lavendar paint. Black-eyed susans on baby blue. Flipped over patient beds and boxes of disposable gloves. Pigeons add gradients of grey. It's all at work.

Overhead you can hear the M line, better yet, you can see it. Clues be done.

Afloat after dark

Holy smokes! Never thought I'd be here.

Gator-Paste

Just back from a great trip to Reno for my show 'Homeward Bound' at Holland Project. Tony Alston did some amazing documentation of the work and you can see all of it on my flickr page. But more importantly I wanted to introduce you all to the newest form of wheat-pasting.

Gator-paste! If you're worried about your street art not getting enough electrolytes, worry no longer. Gator-paste sticks better, longer, and with more tangy flavor. Actually, I was stuck without any wallpaper adhesive and had to do it the ol' fashion way with flour, water, a little sugar, a pinch of good luck. And in the end, I think this worked much better than usual. Go experimentation!

So anyways, hope you enjoy this new paste up and the culinary direction my blog has taken.
Bon apetit!

Rapping with Broken Crow in Gambia

In the not-so recent news the always impressive Broken Crow were invited to Gambia to paint villages galore (Tons of amazing pictures here). During their layover on the way to "The" Gambia I was fortunate enough to hand them off two wheat pastes. I was even more fortunate to have them take the time to paste them up for me. As the story goes, they used a strange African bread paste concoction that someone recommended. Upon putting this one up, the family of the house wondered why they were spreading food on the wall. Mike of Broken Crow said they gave the family the remaining paste to make bread. That really puts it in perspective.

Big thanks to Ian Cox of Wallkandy for the pics!



And on a funny note, one of the paintings that i gave Mike to paste up was in two parts. This was his interpretation of how they should be joined.


And this was mine.


I still can't tell which one is better.

November Paste

Cold morning exploring the old haunts up in Bushwick with White Cocoa. She completely obliterated me on this wall with this gorgeous piece! Get your drool sack ready...

Head over heels

New piece in a beautiful and flooded abandoned hospital in Bushwick.

IOU

One of my favorites of this month is this I.O.U. wheatpaste. I'm posting it now because it fits the day and the drama unfolding.

White Cocoa & Overunder

On Track with Labrona

Just back from a great, quick trip to Montreal for the show at Yves Laroche. Wanted to post some work by Labrona and give him a fist bump for being such a good host.